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Lydia

See also: Lýdia and Lýdía

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Λυδία (Ludía, “the region of Lydia”), from λυδία (ludía, “beautiful one, noble one”), a feminine form of Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.

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Lydia

  2. An ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey.
  3. (biblical) A woman converted by St. Paul; presumably named for ancestry or residence in Lydia.
  4. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], “Chapter 9”, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
      Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
    • 1990, Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 5:
      The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.

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Danish

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Lydia

  1. Lydia (biblical character).
  2. a female given name

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Lydia f

  1. a female given name, a Latinized variant of Lydie

German

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlyːdi̯a]
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Lydia f

  1. Lydia (biblical character)
  2. a female given name

Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Λυδία (Ludía).

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Lȳdia f sg (genitive Lȳdiae); first declension

  1. Lydia (a country in Asia Minor)
  2. a female given name
    • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina Book III, poem IX:
      Quid sī prīsca redit Venus dīductōsque iugō cōgit aēneō? sī flāva excutitur Chloē reiectaeque patet iānua Lȳdiae?
      What now, if Love returning should pair us 'neath his brazen yoke once more, and, bright-hair'd Chloe spurning, Horace to off-cast Lydia ope his door?

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Lȳdia
Genitive Lȳdiae
Dative Lȳdiae
Accusative Lȳdiam
Ablative Lȳdiā
Vocative Lȳdia

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  • “Lydia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lydia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Lydia

  1. Lydia (biblical character).
  2. a female given name

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Lydia c (genitive Lydias)

  1. Lydia (biblical character).
  2. a female given name
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